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I came like Water, and like Wind I go.
Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam I came like Water, and like Wind I go.
Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam Give me a flagon of red wine, a book of verses, a loaf of bread, and a little idleness. If with such store I might sit by thy dear side in some lonely place, I should deem myself happier than a king in his kingdom.
Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam Thy Return is as another Sun to Heaven; a new Rose blooming in the Garden of the Soul.
Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam Justice is the soul of the universe.
Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam We are thinking about bad only those who are worse than we are, and those who are better than us … I’m just not up to us … One does not follow it than smell roses. Another of the bitter herbs will produce honey. Give bread to one – will remember forever. Another life donation – do not understand.
Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam Wake! For the Sun, who scatter’d into flight The Stars before him from the Field of Night, Drives Night along with them from Heav’n, and strikes The Sultan’s Turret with a Shaft of Light.
Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam So when that Angel of the darker Drink, at last shall find you by the river-brink, And, offering his Cup, invite your Soul forth to your Lips to quaff-you shall not shrink.
Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam The wine-cup is the little silver well, Where truth, if truth there be, doth dwell.
Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam How sad, a heart that does not know how to love, that does not know what it is to be drunk with love. If you are not in love, how can you enjoy the blinding light of the sun, the soft light of the moon?
Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam Awake, my Little ones, and fill the Cup Before Life’s Liquor in its Cup be dry.
Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! That Youths sweet-scented Manuscript should close!
Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam Don’t cry upon your losses Don’t measure today with tomorows Don’t trust to be passed and coming day believe in now – and be happy today.
Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam Tomorrow! – Why, tomorrow I may be Myself with yesterday’s sev’n thousand years.
Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam Better be jocund with the fruitful Grape Than sadden after none, or bitter, Fruit.
Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam Oh Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, And ev’n with Paradise devise the snake; For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man Is blackened – Man’s forgiveness give and take!
Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam
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Allie MillerAllie Miller The universe hears what you say, but it knows what you mean.
Brianna PastorBrianna Pastor Enough of this. The next one I love will return my passion.
Iestyn TudorIestyn Tudor It’s unconditional; their chemistry is unconditional – forever.
Ophelia ScarlettOphelia Scarlett I love you so much that it hurts and that’s the problem I love you so much that it hurts.
Olivia CliffordOlivia Clifford Let’s always bloom, savor and delight others with our beauty.
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The audience that storms the box-office of the theater to gain entrance to a sensational show is small and sleepy compared with the throng that crashes the courthouse door when something concerning real life and death is to be laid bare to the public.
Clarence DarrowClarence Darrow I have been so satisfied with the Christian religion that I have spent no time trying to find arguments against it. I am not afraid now that you will show me any. I feel that I have enough information to live and die by.
William Jennings BryanWilliam Jennings Bryan I dyed my hair blonde when I was 14. My mom was not happy. But I love being blonde.
Rita OraRita Ora By the blessings of heaven I mean to live and die, please God, in the faith of my mother.
William McKinleyWilliam McKinley If we don’t have God in our life, we’re considered dead.
Manny PacquiaoManny Pacquiao You live and learn. Then you die and forget it all.
George ForemanGeorge Foreman I meet you and know suddenly and horribly there is no difference between sex and war that I must die to get that close to touching god.
Chelsie DianeChelsie Diane I had a lot of dates but I decided to stay home and dye my eyebrows.
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